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A new smartphone app boosts revenue and customer satisfaction for restaurants, hotels and bars.

Hospitality operators utilize dashboards to yield insights into the inner workings of businesses and gain necessary data to improve efficiency and returns. Restaurant executives reveal how dashboard technology helps to remove guesswork in day-to-day business operations.

A partnership will provide HotSchedules clients with comprehensive labor-management and hiring solutions.

With reports piling up, lengthy wait times, inefficient labor costs, and food spoilage all translating to lost profits, restaurants need back office technologies in order to be successful. Operators are looking for systems to streamline the back-of-house. HT's 2012 Back Office Showcase offers insights into the latest technologies that will ultimately provide control and improve margins.

It's important to ask the right questions of third party training partners to ensure that the most up-to-date and effective reporting and analytics systems are being utilized.

Restaurants across the U.S. are embracing handheld devices for tableside ordering and payment as the plentiful options become more affordable.

As recessionary era belt-tightening seems to be easing, IT budgets across all hospitality sectors are increasing.

As the hospitality industry faces the end of magnetic stripe credit cards, operators must prepare for a new era of payment processing that will necessitate hardware and software upgrades.